Thursday November 5, 2009 Serving San José State University since 1934 Volume 133, Issue 36 SPORTS]]]OPINION A&E SJSU defender used Are students forced Zombie sends fans sports to avoid trouble to grow up too fast? to the pit Page 6 Page 7 Page 4 Scavengers collect materials on campus By Jill Abell Staff Writer ith a fuzzy, brown hat rest- Wing on her tangled hair, and large black sunglasses shadowing her eyes, Donna Hale sits outside King Library accompanied by her rusty shopping cart. As night lifts off the streets, rat- tling shopping carts can be heard in the distance, along with alumi- num, plastic and glass trapped in soggy trash bags, grinding across pavement and leaving a trail of slime in its wake. Unauthorized recycling collec- tors roam downtown San Jose and SJSU’s campus, earning a living by cashing in plastic and glass bottles, and aluminum cans. Hale said she is originally from St. Louis, Mo., and said she has lived in San Jose for the past fi ve years. She said she came here to be closer to her sister, who lives in Sacramento, but said she also loves the warm weather. Hale said she pushes all of her belongings in a shopping cart around downtown San Jose, and [ Chad Ziemendorf / Spartan Daily ] she does not have a home. Mariano Hernandez has collected recyclables for fi ve years at SJSU. He collects Social Security, since a major heart surgery has left him disabled. “This basket will give me about $45 to $50,” he said in a combination of Spanish and English. “Today is a good day.” See HOMELESS, Page 3 University Wi-Fi Some SJSU programs slip past budget restrictions By Jill Abell dumps Comcast Staff Writer By Husain Sumra “It would be a lot easier,” she Staff Writer said. alent-based programs are Sloan said students will now get Tgiven special treatment in ccessing the wireless Internet more interactivity with technical admitting prospective students Aat SJSU has gone through a support at the help desk if they need outside of Santa Clara County, change. help. an SJSU offi cial said. Th e wireless Internet at SJSU “Th ey can actually sit down and California State Univer- switched managers from Comcast talk to us,” he said. sity impaction guidelines to the university Friday, said an in- Nithin Kumar, a master’s student allow special-talent admis- formation technology consultant in industrial and systems engineer- sions for the school of mu- with academic technology at the ing, said he thought the university sic and dance, and intercol- university help desk. will respond quicker to potential legiate athletics, said Pat Steve Sloan, also a lecturer who problems. Lopes Harris, director of teaches new media, said the transi- “I think I would get a better feed- media relations at SJSU. tion was mostly because of budget back (from the help desk),” he said. Natalie Stull, a senior ki- reasons. Sloan said SJSU had diff erent nesiology major with a con- “We’re saving a lot of money,” priorities compared with Comcast. centration in athletics train- he said. “We pride ourselves on provid- ing, said all colleges should He said the process of switching ing the best customer service in the have the same admission [ Kirsten Aguilar / Spartan Daily ] from Comcast to the university was San Jose State community,” he said. requirements. Students in the school of music and dance play during a symphony band class Wednes- like unplugging a cable from one Sloan said that although SJSU day. The school is one of the few departments exempt from having to limit their stu- place and plugging it into another. is managing the network, students See TALENT, Page 8 dent admittance to those residing in Santa Clara County. According to the new wireless shouldn’t expect problems that were login page for SJSU, users will now happening before the change to not be redirected to the Web page they happen now. Student creates video game art at SJSU are trying to access when they at- “It’s still the same network,” he tempt to log onto the network. said. By Husain Sumra was something he wanted to cre- If one criminal rats out the caught and placed in the “pris- Sam Debey, a senior animation/ He said there was a period of Staff Writer ate. other, they will be freed, but if oner’s dilemma,” he said. illustration major, said he felt that network instability Friday, but SJSU “(Video) games as art is they both rat each other out, Th e player is then asked to the university managing the wireless was prepared. wo prisoners in neighboring something people have done, they’d both end up in jail, he choose between ratting out the is a good thing. “We were prepared for a lot more Tcells hatch a plan to escape but I think it defi nitely should said. other prisoner or not saying a “Th e campus does a good job of hiccups than there were,” he said. through a hole in the back walls be explored more,” he said. Rosener said the game has word, he said. taking care … taking matters into Justin Croly, an IT support spe- of their cells, and jump over logs, Rosener said the game was two versions — a full and longer Th e decision of the other their own hands,” he said. cialist at the university help desk, said drill through walls and outrun based around the game theory version of the game is available prisoner in the online version of Sloan said the transition has the Wi-Fi in the southern part of police dogs. “prisoner’s dilemma.” online, and a shorter version the game is based upon the deci- gone smoothly so far. campus went down for a short time, Th at’s a scenario from a video He said “prisoner’s dilemma” that was available in his gallery, sions of the player on the arcade “I think our group has done a and said some students were confused game created by senior arts ma- is the idea that two criminals which was on display from Oct. version of the game, he said. good job,” he said. about the new wireless log in page. jor Nick Rosener as a part of a are captured by the police, and 5 to 9. He said the game records the Sophomore biology major Ghaz- “(Students) thought it was may- gallery he created to achieve his without each other’s knowledge Th e game allows the player to decisions, and he uploads them. al Mahzouni said she thought the be a phishing scam or something,” Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. they are both off ered deals for jump and maneuver around lev- change would be better for students. he said. Rosener said a video game freedom. els until the player is eventually See ART, Page 2 52˚ theSpartanDaily.com Podcast: • Porn in the firehouse? Two staffers debate. 67 Spartan Daily Blogs spartandailysports.wordpress.com k • Team chemistry aids Yankees to 27th championship Scorpio THH F SAA SUU [ Christian Garrucho / Contributing Photographer ] 67 67 67 67 METAL CONCERT: Rob Zombie rocked the Event Cen- ter on Tuesday night. See a slideshow at spartandailyphoto.com. 2[]NEWS Spartan Daily Thursday, November 5, 2009 Professor uses computer models of kelp forests Whitmore wellness aims to map effects of global climate change to empower people By Ryan Fernandez area or volume of habitat. Graham said the model com- conditions. Staff Writer Graham said kelp is a large, fast- pared information about the grow- “He’s come up with a way to By Ryan Fernandez a team, and it was nice to be growing type of algae that grows in ing conditions of kelp with oce- model one of the eff ects of climate Staff Writer egged on.” Students will no longer have to cold, nutrient-rich waters at depths anic data compiled from archives of change by predicting the location of Senior kinesiology major wonder what kelp forests looked of less than 25 meters. other scientifi c studies, ship logs and organisms based on their physical Th e Whitmore Wellness Hilary Barnes said her team, like 14,000 years ago. He said the study focused on old newspapers. requirements,” Bros said. Challenge was about more than “Pre-PT Babes,” was a great Michael Graham, a SJSU as- Southern California, because the When the study concluded, According to an e-mail from Mi- just being physically fi t, said a motivator for her own eff orts. sociate professor of marine ecology area contained “one of the largest, Graham said he and his colleagues chael Parrish, dean of the College of campus recreation offi cial. “Whenever I’d run into working at the Moss Landing Ma- most productive kelp forests in the found the total biomass and dis- Sciences, Graham was able to predict Kristine Kirkendall, campus them on campus, we’d joke rine Laboratory, published a study world.” tribution of Southern California’s the presence of unknown kelp de- recreation’s assistant director of and remind each other, ‘Did on ancient kelp forests in the Oct. Graham said a computer mod- kelp forests reached a peak about posits in the Galapagos Islands dur- fi tness and wellness, said the you hug someone?’ ‘Have you 22 issue of the scientifi c journal el was used to predict the distri- 14,000 years ago, and were about ing an earlier study, using the same Whitmore Wellness Challenge, worked out yet?’ ‘Did you re- “Nature.” bution and productivity of South- three times the size of modern techniques he used in this study.